'Making Things See' can teach you how to hack the Kinect

With the Kinect, Microsoft is providing today's hackers with a powerful off-the-shelf system for accessing motion controls and 3D imaging; letting people build things that would have been out of reach for anyone but experts and researchers just a few years ago. Unfortunately, as is often the case in the hobbyist world, the quantity and decentralized nature of online documentation can be daunting for first-timers, discouraging people that might otherwise be interested in joining the scene. Luckily, that may no longer be the case with the release of Greg Borstein's new book Making Things See: 3D Vision with Kinect, Processing, Arduino and MakerBot.

With Making Things See — the newest in the Make: Books series from O'Reilly — Borstein...